Impact of Violent Video Games on Behaviour

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Overview of video game violence and aggression......................................................................1
Evidence that explains that exposure to video game violence is harmful...................................1
Strengths and weakness of research............................................................................................2
Explanation of people who are at risk of becoming aggressive due to violence in video games3
What does risk factors suggest about extent to which exposure to video game violence is
casually related to increased aggressiveness...............................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Behaviour change is a process because of which modification or transformation within
behaviour of a person can be observed. Behavioural changes within a person can occur because
of various factors whether in positive or negative manner (Gentile, Bender & Anderson, 2017).
Playing aggressive or violent video games is one of those factors because of which change
within behaviour of a person can be observed in a negative manner. It has been observed that
playing violent video games can result in development of aggressive behaviour, bullying
behaviour etc. Due to this it has become extremely important to understand ways in which these
violent games impact overall thinking and behaviour of people. This essay will be focusing upon
discussing and explaining reasons because of which it has become important to discuss impact of
violent video games on people’s behaviour.
MAIN BODY
Overview of video game violence and aggression
Today trend of playing video games that are full of violence and aggression is increasing
day by day. In fact, many such kind of video games are being developed and are more popular
especially in young generation such as GTA, Mortal Kombat and many more. Various studies
have clearly helped in understanding that exposure to such kind of aggressive and violent games
is increasing in children, adolescents as well as in adults. According to the study of Ferguson &
et al, (2010), exposure to these violent and aggressive video games is one of the main reasons
because of which aggression in youth is increasing. Not only this, today such kind of video
games are even more preferred by young generation as a result development of these violence
and aggressive video games have increased drastically and in order to attract a greater number of
people organizations developing these games are focusing upon putting more and more
aggressive and full of violence content within it.
Evidence that explains that exposure to video game violence is harmful
Due to increasing trend of plays violent and aggressive video games a greater number of
firms are developing such kind of video games. But its impact upon people is quite harmful but
most of the people are still unaware of this fact (Kepes, Bushman & Anderson, 2017). Due to
this various many research have been carried out in this field in order to prove that such kind of
video games have direct relationship with a development of aggressive behaviour among people.
But this topic has still been a debatable topic because some of the research studies support this
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